Messaging

The Short Message Service (SMS) lets you send and receive text messages to
and from other mobile phones or email addresses. To use this feature, you may
need to subscribe to your service provider's message service.

The Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) lets you send and receive multimedia
messages (such as picture, video, and audio messages) to and from other mobile
phones or email addresses.To use this feature, you may need to subscribe to
your service provider's multimedia message service.

Important! When creating a message,
adding an image, a sound file, or a video clip to a text message changes
the message from a text message to a multimedia message.

Messaging icons are displayed at the top of the screen and indicate when
messages are received and their type.

Note: The main Home screen initially contains the Messaging
icon. If you
delete it, or if you want to access Messaging from another Home screen, you
must touch Applications > Messaging .

Touch on the To field to manually enter a recipient or Touch on one of the following
buttons:

Recent: to select a recipient from a list of recently sent messages.

Contacts: to select a recipient from your Contacts list (valid entries must
have a wireless phone number or email address).

Group: to select a recipient from the Group list.

If adding a recipient from Recent, Contacts, or Group, Touch the contact to
place a checkmark then Touch Add. The contact will be placed in the recipient
field.

Note: For the Group option, if the number of recipients is less than 10,
all members in the group will be added. You will need to delete any unnecessary
members in the list by selecting the trash can icon and deleting unwanted entries.

Note: Enter additional recipients by separating each entry with a semicolon
(;) then using the previous procedure.

Touch the Type to compose field and use the on-screen keypad to enter a message.

Add more recipients by touching the recipient field.

Review your message and Touch .

Note: If you exit a message before you send it, it will be automatically
saved as a draft.

Sent and received text and picture messages are grouped into message threads.
Threaded messages allow you to see all the messages exchanged (similar to a
chat program) and displays a contact on the screen. Message threads are listed
in the order in which they were received, with the latest message displayed
at the top.

To open a threaded message:

From the main Home screen, Touch Messaging .

Touch the message thread you want to view.

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Touch and hold the message thread to display the following options:

View contact: displays the contact's information. This option only displays
if the sender is in your Contacts list.

Add to Contacts: displays the Contacts information screen. This option only
displays if the sender is not in your Contacts list.